Dreamventures: Discussing Lightness and Tourism | TNL! Guest Programme

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Come and join the presentations and discussion with students, scientists, designers and design critics on traveling light

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We live in a heavy world. In 2020, for the first time in history, the total weight of human made objects exceeded all biomass on the planet. Many actions we take and objects we consume perpetuate a heavy lifestyle. One such example, is the tourism industry. If tourism was a country, it would be the 3rd worst polluter in the world.
 Students of the Master Industrial Design (Royal Academy of Art, The Hague) along with design critic Ed van Hinte and experts in the field, researched the tourism industry and developed an alternative holiday arrangement.
 In this Thursday Night Live! Guest Programme they present a design discourse on traveling light: lightness and tourism.Dreamventures
Tourism is an $8,8 billion dollar industry. It accounts for 10,4% of Global GDP and approximately 1 in 10 people work either directly or indirectly in the tourism sector. It is of huge economic importance. However, the tourism sector also accounts for 8% of the total CO2 emissions and can have devastating effects on the social fabrics of communities.
Dreamventures is a holiday arrangement that explores the night as an avenue for holidays, explorations and local adventures. The city at night can be a mysterious place. Environments are transformed in the darkness of the night, spaces that are predominantly human are deserted and invites new forms of interaction with the same cities we inhabit. Its principle is simple – adventure is just around the corner and if we set out with a refreshed eye seeking beauty, adventure and relaxation we can find them in the most unexpected places.
In this interactive presentation, we aim to provoke viewers to question the heaviness of “everyday human lives” and collectively discuss and wonder how we can make our world lighter.
Students of the Master Industrial Design will present the Speculative travel agency Dreamventures, to investigate and cultivate new ways of traveling. Followed by a discussion with Ed van Hinte, experts, scientists and politicians in the field.
Ed van Hinte
Ed van Hinte is an industrial Designer with an aversion for objects but formost design critic and writer. Within his Design Research Station challenging the ‘circular economy’ with its mainly technical and naively functional approach. Recently published ‘Designing Lightness, structures for saving energy’ on saving weight in everything we make. Forging unexpected cross-links between the world of composite materials and structural solutions, its reach axtends from toffee wrappers to cruise ships and from skyscrapers to cars and airplanes.

Master Industrial Design The Master Industrial Design is a two-year full-time master programme that sets out to foster designers who want to redesign industry. They develop research and projects in which they question and redesign the conventions in the industrial system and envision more diverse, sustainable and meaningful futures. We believe in the discursive and transformative potential of design.
Through design research designers can pose questions, search for answers, envision futures, and prototype
 scenarios. Design research is therefore at the core of the MID programme. Aesthetically distinctive and outspoken products and projects are being developed based on research that defines the position of the designer in the professional field. Design projects in collaboration with scientists, the industry and the design field form the basis of the programme.

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